What a Bargain!

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• Thanks to the limp dollar, New York is now only the fifteenth most expensive city in the world. Moscow (where a luxury bedroom is $4,000 a month), London, and Seoul are the top three. [<a href=http://www.amny.com/news/local/am-expensive0619,0,2728341.story?coll=am-topheadlines>amNY</a>]
• The <i>Post</i> is up in arms over Bloomberg's <a href=http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/03/bloomberg_to_give_out_shiny_ne.html>pay-to-the-poor</a> incentive program, with experts warning it may cost the city "hundreds of millions." Those poor get all the breaks. [<a href=http://www.nypost.com/seven/06192007/news/regionalnews/pay_the_poor_plan__3g_to_pass_5_tests_regionalnews_maggie_haberman.htm>NYP</a>]
• In the wake of the Sean Bell case, NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly wants to institute sobriety testing for every cop who shoots someone. (One of Bell's killers had two beers before the shooting.) [<a href=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/06/19/2007-06-19_no_cheers_for_police.html>NYDN</a>]
• The city has paid a $29,000 settlement to Jill Coccaro, a woman erroneously arrested for going topless. In New York, of course, women have a full, if woefully rarely exercised, right to take off their shirts in public. And yet we can't dance in bars. [<a href=http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/06/18/topless.settlement.ap/>CNN</a>]
• And, you think <em>Bush</em> v. <em>Gore</em> was bad? Residents of Potter, an upstate town, accidentally voted to ban alcohol in a ballot mix-up and might soon be forced to go dry. [<a href=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/19/nyregion/19beer.html>NYT</a>]

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• Thanks to the limp dollar, New York is now only the fifteenth most expensive city in the world. Moscow (where a luxury bedroom is $4,000 a month), London, and Seoul are the top three. [amNY]
• The Post is up in arms over Bloomberg's pay-to-the-poor incentive program, with experts warning it may cost the city "hundreds of millions." Those poor get all the breaks. [NYP]
• In the wake of the Sean Bell case, NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly wants to institute sobriety testing for every cop who shoots someone. (One of Bell's killers had two beers before the shooting.) [NYDN]
• The city has paid a $29,000 settlement to Jill Coccaro, a woman erroneously arrested for going topless. In New York, of course, women have a full, if woefully rarely exercised, right to take off their shirts in public. And yet we can't dance in bars. [CNN]
• And, you think Bush v. Gore was bad? Residents of Potter, an upstate town, accidentally voted to ban alcohol in a ballot mix-up and might soon be forced to go dry. [NYT]